Salsa Deadwood
29+ XT 1X11
$4,500
Do you ever foresee exactly how what you’re about to do will turn out badly, but then go right ahead and do it anyway, as if you didn’t hear yourself say not to do it?
The hissing from my rear tire was only the latest in a lifelong series of such choices, the most recent of which have included trying to trim a steerer tube with the fork still mounted, thinking: “I should be careful about this,” then realizing halfway through that I was also halfway through the star-fangled nut. Not my best moment behind a wrench, but unfortunately not my worst.
Just before flatting, I’d glanced at the rock drop that serves as the entrance for one of
